Quotes from Christina Lamb

Man's discovery that his genitalia could serve as a weapon to generate fear must rank as one of the most important discoveries of prehistoric times along with the use of fire and the first crude stone axe," concluded the American writer Susan Brownmiller in her groundbreaking account of rape, Against Our Will, published in 1975

Around the world, a woman's body is still very much a battlefield and hundreds of thousands of women bear the invisible wounds of war.

All the air power in the world was of little use when what they were really fighting was an ideology, not a conventional army. Our

So worried by the chaos were the British that between Christmas 1928 and New Year 1929 they organised an airlift first of their women and children then of all personnel, the first large-scale air evacuation in history

subjugating opponents, what the Romans termed Vae victis (Woe to the conquered).

They were people I knew, neighbors actually, acting like animals. They killed thousands of Tutsis. The machetes they used to cut people were the same as they used to cut crops and cows, they didn't care.

Rape is as much of a weapon of war as the machete, club, or Kalashnikov.

Surely if men are sufficient masters of things to build a howitzer they ought to know better than to destroy each other with it. — Stewart Gore-Browne, from Arras, 1916.